* U.S. retail sales, inflation data comes in weak
* Wall St edge lower after hitting record peaks
* Crude oil extends gains a day after major price spike (Updates with open of U.S. markets; changes byline, changes dateline, previous LONDON)
By Lewis Krauskopf
NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Key U.S. and European stock indexes slipped modestly on Friday, a day after U.S. equities hit record peaks, amid soft U.S. economic data that also tempered expectations of a near-term interest rate hike and weighed on the dollar and Treasury yields.
European stocks edged modestly lower after earlier setting a fresh seven-week high with weakness in mining shares offsetting a surge in A.P. Moller-Maersk MAERSKb.CO after its earnings. The weaker dollar helped lift oil prices a day after a huge spike in crude.
U.S. retail sales were unexpectedly flat in July as Americans cut back on purchases of clothing and other goods, while other data showed producer prices recorded their biggest drop in nearly a year in July. retail sales number was not robust, giving a little bit more reason to question the direction of the economy again," said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"By and large, the news today was just a little bit blah, so there's no reason to commit a lot of money to the stock market on a summer Friday."
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 29.98 points, or 0.16 percent, to 18,583.54, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.23 points, or 0.06 percent, to 2,184.56 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 2.32 points, or 0.04 percent, to 5,226.08.
All three indexes closed at record highs on Thursday, the first time they have done so simultaneously since 1999.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX edged down 0.13 percent, but hovered around its highest point since late June.
Propped up by Asian markets, MSCI's all-world stock index .MIWD00000PUS was little changed, lingering around year highs.
In the United States, cooling consumer spending and tame inflation suggest the Federal Reserve will probably not raise interest rates any time soon despite a robust labor market.
The dollar .DXY fell 0.3 percent against a basket of currencies. U.S. retail sales data in particular is causing the dollar to weaken," said Nick Bennenbroek, head of currency strategy at Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) Securities in New York.
"The soft U.S. figure and its potential implications for Federal Reserve policy is probably going to be the most notable driver of the markets for the balance of today's session."
Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields fell to their lowest level in nearly two weeks after the economic data, with 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR rising 26/32 in price, to yield 1.4831 percent. relationship is pretty straightforward, with low inflation and low growth comes lower interest rates," said Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia.
Oil prices added to gains after rising more than 4 percent on Thursday. A weaker dollar benefits the commodity, which is denominated in the U.S. currency. Brent LCOc1 climbed 1.5 percent to $46.72 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 rose 1.9 percent to $44.30 a barrel.